what's up with this increasing lag/disconnect?

Am I the only person experience this?

I was playing last night around 9pm EST... the lag spike / disconnect was ridiculous so I logged out figuring I will just play in the morning.

Logged in this morning, still having massive lag spike / disconnect..

don't even know how to play this game anymore without feeling frustrated over such basic issue.

in NJ with comcast 25/5 internet.

Nope, lag spikes have been pretty bad for me, for a week now.

Not only that, I keep seeing people with the red disconnect symbol by their name, everywhere. In instances, I've lost party members, constantly (that come back, because of DC, not because they quit the party). I see people running, slowing down, then all of a sudden speeding up. For the first time in a Garuda Hard Mode battle, I couldn't see or target Garuda until she got in the middle circle (could see the sisters fine, as well as the plumes).

For Titan Hard, I've seen the clockwise bombs dropping all at once (not one by one, as usual)... it's just been really bad this week. A lag I haven't seen before. At first I thought it was exclusively on my side, but after so many party members disconnecting/reconnecting and the red symbols by so many names, I'm not so sure.

I had the SAME issue last night at AK.

And i had never experienced such bad lag as yesterday.

That beens there since RELEASE!, they havn't fixed it & its just been getting worse that finally other players are noticing it.

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*We will close this Thread, as no one is complaining about it anymore due to the 100 other threads on the same matter

e.t.c. :rolleyes:

This may have always been a problem for some people but I have not experienced even a tiny bit of lag until last night. Every boss fight in stone vigil i was getting about a 10 second lag followed by slingshot madness, then all was fine until the next boss. Checked speedtest.net on the laptop next to me while it was happening and everything was great with 8ms ping. Something has changed

Digital sales resumed. That's what happened.

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Digital sales resumed. That's what happened.

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why in the world would they do that without additional servers and server transfer... this turned into a 24/7 lag with 90k disconnect none stop.

kinda low for business practice...

First post since I was banned for 10 days for simply sharing my opinion. WTG SE fail mods. Anyway.

I've had horrible lag in instances and in the world ever since they increased the concurrent number of players per server. Remember when they did that?

I was doing Sunken Temple with my family over the weekend and we were unable to complete the dungeon due to lag. My bf and I are stuck on Titan HM right now due to lag. I've upgraded my internet service at my house, that did nothing. I went over to my bfs apartment to play - that has better infrastructure than where my house is, and that still did nothing. I do not see us beating Titan with this lag when it's usually half of the party lagging out constantly. I don't know if I can continue enjoying a game that is in such a sad state... I want to enjoy the game but it's getting more difficult with each passing day when this lag seems to be getting worse.

Because some players dont have this problem they'll tell you it doesnt exist. Keep on posting about it. Im sick of this lag and sick of being told it doesnt exist. One of my ls disconnects hourly without fail, its a problem unique to him and he's resigned himself that this will be his FFXIV experience.

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I've been getting insane lag all yesterday and today, freezing for upwards of 30 seconds constantly. My roommate on PS3 is having none of these issues, and I've tried resetting the router and my pc multiple times. All ports are forwarded, firewall off. ATM the game in unplayable, I can't see any condition changes while crafting, my main combat classes are healers, so that's a no go as well.

I've had days of terrible lag, followed by a week of silky-smooth gameplay, followed by a day of totally random lag. I first thought that it was due to server congestion (and in some way it probably is/was), but when I log in on a Tuesday morning at 8am, there aren't many people playing that early this time of the year, so it bears to question why am I disconnecting every twenty minutes? Likewise, I fought Titan HM with my FC last night for about an hour at what amounts to primetime for the game (8-10pm EST on a Saturday), and essentially had no lag outside of two poorly timed spikes--one on Geocrush and another on bombs. Thankfully, we had some top-notch healers, but still.

It's irritating to say the least, and I hope the addition of new servers later on helps. If nothing else, I'd like to not be hesitant about entering a dungeon just because I felt a small lag spike in town upon logging in.

It was pretty much unplayable for me on my last Amdapor Keep run, with 6 or 7 second spent frozen in lag for every quarter of a second where things moved. None of my heals were landing on their targets so we were just dying to trash. I apologized and dropped group as there's nothing I can do but wait for it to mysteriously disappear again in a day or two.

I don't know what's going on with the connection. I know the cancel-sub-if-pet-issue-not-fixed thing is a petty and juvenile hallmark of this community, but if this continues to persist it will be a legitimate cause for me to cancel my own subscription, which is something I very much do not want to do as I love everything about this game. Yet it's impossible to do pretty much anything in conditions of rubberbanding like this, I can't even craft as the time taken to initiate actions and search the market board for materials just makes it extraordinarily frustrating.

Since I'm playing 2.0 I see people gathering twice as fast as me because of the lag. I go to node and do my first swing, another player comes to the same node and while I'm at my last attempt the other player is already done and starts walking towards the next node. Leveling botany is already depressing but watching other people doing the same in half the time is pretty sad. I also have lags while crafting, that's why I use never macros there.

I still hope that transferring from the Japanese datacenters to an EU datacenter will at least decrease the server lag. I have a constant 300ms ping to my server, not to mention that I even loose packets on my way to Japan.

Getting 90000 on Ultros.

This is driving me insane! I'm getting 29ms ping, yet getting 90000 every 5 minutes, and everything freezing in game upwards of 30s at a time, constantly, since yesterday (Saturday, 12th). I cannot play! I don't know what to do, like I said earlier ports have been forwarded and all that jazz. God, if anyone has any solution or partial fix please help us!

ive been insta DCing for a straight week now, i cannot do anything, DC within 5-10minutes, ALWAYS. doesnt matter what time i log in, i will DC. i cant belive square isnt hot fixing this. i guess for the mean time were paying them so they can deny us what we paid for. seems like a fair trade.

Been having this problem on and off for a while. A friend of mine lives down the street and I am usually skyping with them. They never report lag the same time I do, so it's not our ISP. It's SE. It happens sometimes during primetime and sometimes at 10:00AM on a Tuesday.

I experienced my first 90k DC for a while on Saturday night during a CM run and got followed up with error 103010 or something like that so I couldn't login, I gave up trying after a while and went to bed but have not tried to login again since to see if I can but I would assume I would be able to by now.

Really awful DF lag lately. Titan HM is basically unplayable due to being hit by phantom plumes. So, congrats for helping the already booming business of selling Titan wins, SE.

Same, seems to mostly just be dungeons where I get the worst of it. Though I have gotten random DCs just wandering about. Even get DCed before I can even re-log back into the game. I'm hoping there's some change after the hotfix. It's mostly playable during the early part of the day but at night it's really not. And I can't DPS properly if I have no clue what's going on for a full six plus seconds. Certainly not my connection. But given my observations it's due to server. Want to play but can't.

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Am I the only person experience this?

I was playing last night around 9pm EST... the lag spike / disconnect was ridiculous so I logged out figuring I will just play in the morning.

Logged in this morning, still having massive lag spike / disconnect..

don't even know how to play this game anymore without feeling frustrated over such basic issue.

in NJ with comcast 25/5 internet.

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I used to have really bad lag and disconnect but, I bought a ethernet cable and am currently running it from my PS3 to my router, and I haven't lagged once and haven't been disconnected once. Not saying this will for sure fix it, but if there is a direct connection it should help a little. :)

I'm also having very bad lag today. I just decided to give up playing today because it was so bad. I don't mean to be negative but, isn't this why we pay a monthly sub? This is exactly the reason i gave up on free to play MMO's, because of servers like this. And now i find myself paying a monthly sub for the same poor quality? I expected so much better from SE, all their games have been known for quality. Even if you didn't like some of their other titles, they were not known for such poor quality. Well i'm subbed for 90 days, so i can't very well vote with my wallet. But i'll consider this when my sub is up in January. :mad:

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Been having this problem on and off for a while. A friend of mine lives down the street and I am usually skyping with them. They never report lag the same time I do, so it's not our ISP. It's SE. It happens sometimes during primetime and sometimes at 10:00AM on a Tuesday.

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Never assume it is not your ISP just because your friend lives down the street and his connection is doing fine. The hardware/system setup between ISP and your friend's house is not the same one used between you and your ISP. You may even be connected to a different gateway.

still getting 9000 WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

Question: do any of you use ping improvement programs? Such as Smoothping, cFoSspeed or others like it?
If you do, disable that program and see if theres an improvement in things.
As a reference, i play from Australia and my ping has been rock solid since beta. Discounting of course the 300ms delay on positional checks.

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Question: do any of you use ping improvement programs? Such as Smoothping, cFoSspeed or others like it?
If you do, disable that program and see if theres an improvement in things.
As a reference, i play from Australia and my ping has been rock solid since beta. Discounting of course the 300ms delay on positional checks.

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Nope, I get about 73-75ms. So I know it's not latency.

EDIT: Just hoping it gets better with the update spreading the tomes around and people transferring to other servers is greater then people transferring to the server I'm on.